Tell Me My Name

Written by Erin Ruddy

Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt

This domestic thriller features a cottage retreat, a suspicious new neighbor, a violent kidnapping, and a wife who learns her husband isn't telling her the whole truth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Oct 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781666552362

Erin Ruddy

Erin Ruddy is a writer, editor, and award-winning journalist. She is currently the executive editor at MediaEdge Communications. She lives in Toronto.

Reviews for Tell Me My Name

[Darcia Helle · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Where to begin? Tell Me My Name had tons of promise, but nothing about the story worked for me.

Explanations are difficult without lots of details and spoilers. I’ll stick with spoiler-free basics.

Ellie’s character is fine. Neil is a jerk or a superhero, depending on the moment. The detective is inept and unprofessional.

Clive, the bad guy here, is a caricature of every bad buy with mommy issues. He’s an obsessive man-child with an uncontrollable, vicious temper who manages to do things regarding his appearance and detective skills that feel way over-the-top. The man he is through most of the book doesn’t at all mesh with the man he is at the end, regarding motives and behavior.

While I struggled with this story all the way through, the final twist and ensuing madness totally lost me. It was too much coincidence, too many reasons, too many directions. Just too much everything. While I respect the author’s goal here, I think the plot, particularly regarding Clive’s driving force, needed a narrower focus.

On the bright side, the narration is excellent.

[Tina · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This was a tough one to connect with, although I thought the story was on the brink of being interesting. Too many fluffy factors from a female law enforcement/detective ending calls with a “toodaloo” to a ravaged husband & brother-in-law solving the chase faster than the detective on the case? The twist at the end was decent but didn’t give me a finale to say “wow”. Overall I didn’t find it realistic and not sure I’d recommend it.